The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-05-13
NO. 35.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

They are beginning to call the
American Exhibition, that is to be in
London, THE Yankeries.
The Temple Emanuel in New York
has an organ with four thousand four
hundred and twenty-four pipes.
"A man near Atlanta. Ca, has
found one thousand one hundred and
ninety dollars in five-dollar gold pieces.
The oldest library in the world is
that of Kwotozo-Kien, which was es-
tablished during the Chow dynasty in
China (B. c. 1112).
1t is all very well to talk about
mind reading, but the thing that should
be encouraged is newspaper reading
Burlington HatOkeye.
1t is believed that thousands viii
be added this year to Alaska's popula-
ton, as mining and exploring are to be
energetically prosecuted.
"A Canadian editor describes his
contemporary as ''that freak against
natures laws sandwiched between a
weazen ed-up soul and diseased imag-
nation"
The British war-ship Raven is re-
ported to have been saved from de-
struction in a cyclone in the South Pa
cific by n liberal use of oil, which stilled
the stormy waters.
The true boundary line between
Connecticut and Rhode Island was only
settled recently, and Rhode Island gets
from six to nine feet of nutmeg land in
the act.-DetrOit Free Press.
"A German doctor is having good
success with cUnsumptive patients by
inducing them to sleep in the open air
of the Thuringian forests, well wrapped
up and sleeping in light hammocks-
simply the fresh air cure.-Foote's
Health Monthly.
"A Philadelphia economist figures
out the reduction of car fare in that
city from six to five cents as positive
loss to poor people. He says that
when they walked before they saved
six cents, and now they only save five
cents Christian at Work.
"A seminary for young ladies at
Lasell, Mass, has issued a beautifully
illustrated catalogue in which an
nouncement is made that ''Pains is
taken to cultivate the best habits in
speaking and writing she English Ian.
guage. - Cincinnati Times.
An Alderney COW is now an essen
tial appurtenance aboard a we'll APP
pointed pleasure yacht. James Gordon
Bennett has one packed into zinc
stall on the Namouna, so the choicest
cream can be had at every meal The
cow saws she likes YACHTING.
Only a couple of copper cents and
few pieces of brick were found in the
stomach of an ostrich recently dis
sected at the Philadelphia Zoo. The
dissectors expected to find rings, gold
watches, jack-knives. nails, etc, and
were accordingly much disappointed.
England is the only country in
Europe whore the military forces are
recruited by voluntary enlistment.
Therefore her industries benefit enor-
mously by the comparatively small
number of young men withdrawn from
them and saddled upon the national
earnings Chicago Times.
"A woodcutter in the forests near
Bangor. Me-, was the victim of a singu-
lar illness a few days ago. His pro-
visions ran short and ne was compelled
to eat cracked corn to save himself
from starving. He drank great deal
of water and the corn swelled, and but
for the timely arrival of doctor he
would have died.
The electric railroads in Los Ange-
les, Cal, where the climate is consid-
cred to be the most favorable for them,
are decided failures. One electric
road, about one and half miles in
length, requires an engine of about
fifty horsepower to supply the electric
ity of two cars, and, at this rate, is con-
sidered not profitable.
That eels can live without water
for at least eighteen days, Is demon
strated by recent occurrence at the
South Kensington Aquarium, London.
Eighteen days after tank had been re
moved, ten eels were found secreted in
perfectly dry crevice of the adjoining
masonry. When placed in water they
speedily became as lively as ever. N
y. Ledger.
in celebrated will case, recently
on trial on the Pacific coast, part Of
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sanity Of the testator was the fact that
one of his most highly priced posses
sions had been the false tooth of
woman with whom he had been inti-
mately acquainted. He had had the
precious keepsake handsomely mounted
in gold and wore it as a scarf-pin.-
Chicago Herald.
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